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Dave Ortega

@daveortega.bsky.social

Writer/ illustrator/ cartoonist/ educator Días de Consuelo (graphic novel)/ Hacienda (ongoing comic series) https://www.daveortegadraws.com/ https://patreon.com/daveortega

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I'll be at Centro de Artes in San Antonio on July 10 for this Artist Talk related to the current group comics exhibition there. Come say hi.

27.06.2025 21:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Shiny floors on the drawing board.

09.05.2025 20:15 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Protest in Boston Common yesterday.

20.04.2025 14:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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RIP folk singer Michael Hurley. I made this anthology zine with friends a lifetime ago. One of my contributions was a comic based on Hurley's haunting "The Werewolf Song" which I was obsessed with at the time.

06.04.2025 17:56 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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On the drawing board today.

28.03.2025 15:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Art book fairs are a thing where you can find a decent zine and it could be $5 or $500. Find my low-priced comics here today at Boston University 808 Comm Ave from 11-6. I'll be in the hallway where all good comics are.

22.03.2025 13:13 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to see that Hacienda #3 is reviewed in this month's Arrivals and Departures column in The Comics Journal. "Ortega is some kind of narrative virtuoso."

21.03.2025 16:27 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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My comics are in a group show opening in a few days in San Antonio. Here are some behind the scenes installation pictures that include wall graphics of my art.

21.03.2025 12:02 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

14.02.2025 07:07 — 👍 41137    🔁 10594    💬 1016    📌 901
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I had a craft day.

02.02.2025 22:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Comic Review : HACIENDA #1-3 By Dave Ortega (Self-Published, 2022-2024) | Ryan C.'s Four Color Apocalypse Get more from Ryan C.'s Four Color Apocalypse on Patreon

New review up for @daveortega.bsky.social's "Hacienda" : www.patreon.com/posts/comic-...

28.01.2025 01:12 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

#comics #process #comicart #selfpublished

27.01.2025 16:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From a new page that just went up on Patreon. I'm posting pages from Hacienda issue 4 there as I finish them.

27.01.2025 16:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Quick draw what you're wearing 5 mins max

23.01.2025 20:32 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nice textures!

22.01.2025 14:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Yo #comics peeps, check out Dave's Work, his stuff is fantastic and you can follow him here: @daveortega.bsky.social
www.daveortegadraws.com

22.01.2025 14:36 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽 Thanks, Ansis!

22.01.2025 14:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I just sent off these pages from Hacienda #1 to San Antonio for a group show in a few months. Stay tuned!

22.01.2025 14:37 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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